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da vinci code (PHI!)
2004-05-23, 7:59 p.m.

yoz!

i'm happy! lolz. got two books by Dan Brown yesterday..The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. halfway through the da vinci code book..it is super cool! they have all these facts on da vinci..paris..math..codes. you name it..they have it. (if you're not a specialist on the subject of course.) =P

let's state an example..heard of PHI? you might have. it's the number 1.618 (etc). a page or so from the book.

"Not to be confused with PI," Stettner added, grinning. " As we mathematicians like to say: PHI is one H of a lot cooler than PI!"

...(irrelavent)

"This number PHI," Langdon continued, "1.618 is a very important number in art. Who can tell me why?"

Stettner tried to redeem himself. "Because it's so pretty?"

Everyone laughed.

"Actually," Langdon said, "Stettner's right again. PHI is generally considered the most beautiful number in the universe."

The laughter abruptly stopped, and Stettner gloated.

As Langdon loaded his slide projector, he explained that the number PHI was derived from the Fibonacci sequence - a progression famous not only because the sum of adjacent terms equalled the next term, but because of the quotient of adjacent terms possessed the astonishing property of approaching the number 1.618 - PHI!"

(he then proceeds to give some examples, of which i'll juz state them. for it was an interesting lesson of exchanges which will be too tedious for me to put all here. much less the length. =P)

- the relationship between the females and male bees in a honeycomb community. females are always > males. in the ratio 1.618 : 1

- nautilas : a cephalopod mollusc that pumps gas into its chambered shell to adjust its buoyancy. ratio of each spiral's diameter to the next is PHI.

- sunflower seeds grow in opposing spirals, the ratio of each rotation's diameter to the next is PHI.

- spiralled pinecone patels, leaf arrangement on plant stalks, insects segmentation.

- the human body is literally made of building blocks which proportional ratios always equal PHI.

- dist. from the tip of your head to floor divide by dist. from your belly button to the floor. dist from shoulder to fingertips / dist. from elbow to fingertips. dist. of hip to floor / dist. of knee to floor.finger joints, toes, spinal divisions. ALL PHI.

- buildings, musical scores. there's alot. =P

Lastly, the pentagram. if you draw a pentagram, the lines automatically divide themselves into segment according to PHI. For this reason, the five-pointed star has always been the symbol for beauty and perfection associated with the Goddess and the sacred feminine.

that's about it on PHI. ain't it so cool! hehe. i think the entry's long enough today..(long ENOUGH? who are you kidding??) hehe. cyaz tmr. with more excerpts if i can get my sister to be nice. =P cyaz~

Sapphire ^^

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